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  title info:
    title: Universities and economic development in Africa
  name:
    name part: Cloete, Nico.
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sa
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) :) : i
  abstract: "Universities and economic development in Africa presents the synthesisesand key findings of eight African countries and universities. The analysis and discussions presented in the book draw the following three main conclusions: 1. There is a lack of clarity and agreement (pact) about a development model and the role of higher education in development, at both national and institutional levels. There is, however, an increasing awareness, particularly at government level, of the importance of universities in the global context of the knowledge economy. 2. Research production at the eight African universities is not strong enough to enable them to build on their traditional undergraduate teaching roles and make a sustained contribution to development via new knowledge production. A number of universities have manageable student-staff ratios and adequately qualifi ed staff, but inadequate funds for staff to engage in research. In addition, the incentive regimes do not support knowledge production. 3. In none of the countries in the sample is there a coordinated effort between government, external stakeholders and the university to systematically strengthen the contribution that the university can make to development. While at each of the universities there are exemplary development projects that connect strongly to external stakeholders and strengthen the academic core, the challenge is how to increase the number of these projects. The project on which this report is based forms part of a larger study on Higher Education and Economic Development in Africa, undertaken by the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA). HERANA is coordinated by the Centre for Higher Education Transformation in South Africa"--Back cover.
  note: Nico Cloete [and others].
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: Educational planning
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Economic development projects
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Planning
  subject:
    topic: Education, Higher
    topic: Economic aspects
    geographic: Africa
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Economic development
    topic: Effect of education on
    geographic: Africa
    genre: Case studies
  classification: LC67.68.A35 U65 2011
  classification: 378.6
  identifier: 9781920355838
  identifier: 9781920355807
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MdBmJHUP
    record creation date: 111018
    record change date: 20260608205735.3
    record identifier: in00003386079